Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,959,872 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC ($174,744,840). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $186M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What American Center for Law and Justice Inc does
Mission
Aclj is committed to ensuring the ongoing viability of freedom and liberty in the united states and around the world. By focusing on u.s. Constitutional law, european union law and human rights law, the aclj is dedicated to the concept that freedom and liberty are universal, god-given and inalienable rights that must be protected. The aclj and its worldwide affiliates engage in litigation, provide legal services, render advice to individuals and governmental agencies, as well as counsel clients on global freedom and liberty issues. The aclj and its affiliated organizations also support training law students from around the world in order to protect religious liberty and safeguard human rights and dignity. As a non-profit organization, the aclj does not charge for its services and is dependent upon god and the resources he provides through the time, talent, and gifts of people who share our concerns and desire to protect our religious and constitutional freedoms.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The organization has participated in numerous supreme court, circuit court, court of appeals and state superior and supreme court cases regarding freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and other us constitutional issues. Research staff at the center provides up to date information regarding various cases related to the protection of religious and human rights. A complete list of cases is available upon request.
$27,806,542 spentof which $2,478,925 as grants$7,547,525 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,806,542.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $4.4M (+53%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $21M → $27M.
45 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 48 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 148 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Organizations like AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC?
- AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,959,872 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC ($174,744,840). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $185,959,872 in grants to AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC?
- CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC is the largest funder on record, with $174,744,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 114 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing